Canneries and Preserving Works

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

I thought the factory relocated to Mt Coot-ha/Bardon post '74 flood.

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Ian, I don't know what happened to the Mynor company and can't locate anyone who does. From dredging the internet, local histories, and the memories of The Lord Stanley Coaches, Referees, Failed Punters, and Historians Society I found this out. Gerry Freer was from a big family and studied Food Chemistry whilst working as a young man at Qld. Country Traders. He obtained his qualifications in this and then studied successfully to obtain qualifications as an industrial chemist. He became production manager at Mynor and left in 1959 to start his own food business, Superfoods, in a new factory on his land at Bardon. Gerry & wife bought the property in 1948 and lived there. It was known locally, and still is, as Freers Farm. It is now part of Stuartholme school. This is where Red Seal chips were made. Superfoods made around 80 different lines over the years.

Eventually found a reference to Mynor. They made Panda crisps.

Which they probably used to pander to the Miners so they wouldn't strike.


Hhmmmm, maybe it is just the way I tell 'em?[bigsad] Or not.[biggrin]

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Originally Posted by 4bee

Which they probably used to pander to the Miners so they wouldn't strike.


Hhmmmm, maybe it is just the way I tell 'em?[bigsad] Or not.[biggrin]

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Errrggghh! Ve haff vays of dealing mit subversives. Ve vill send you to Russia, Ostfront!

Oh no, not the Ost front, anywhere but the Ost front.

Russia? To learn how to play better tennis perchance?[smilebigeye]

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

Was it ETA margarine on Hanford Road?

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That was Daffodil Peanut Paste, another blast from the past.
It's a housing estate now.

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Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

Eventually found a reference to Mynor. They made Panda crisps.

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Had forgotten about Panda chips. Am now thinking about another brand that appeared for a couple of years called I think Snack which were salted chips.

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Originally Posted by 3toes

Had forgotten about Panda chips. Am now thinking about another brand that appeared for a couple of years called I think Snack which were salted chips.

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I remember them. There was another popular local brand when I was but a boy, Potato Jones. These were packed in a paper bag something like lunch wrap with a double fold in the top and lots of salt in one fold. If you wanted salty chips you undid both folds and shook the bag.

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

That was Daffodil Peanut Paste, another blast from the past.
It's a housing estate now.

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Interestingly in Queensland the product had by law to be called Peanut Paste. To be called butter products had to be made from milk. The rest of Oz called it peanut butter. Old queenslanders still refer to peanut paste in spite of what is on the label.

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

That was Daffodil Peanut Paste, another blast from the past.
It's a housing estate now.

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But their gardens would look nice in Spring. [smilebigeye]